Motivational Quotes

Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

2.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

4.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

6.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

7.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

8.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

10.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

11.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

12.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

13.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

14.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

16.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

17.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

18.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

19.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

20.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

21.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

22.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

23.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

24.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

25.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

27.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

28.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

29.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

30.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

32.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

33.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

34.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

35.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

36.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

39.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

40.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

41.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

44.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

45.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

46.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

47.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

48.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

49.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

50.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.